top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-10-29

Keep Android Open

http://keepandroidopen.org/

9 months ago

Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade

https://emily.space/posts/251023-uv

9 months ago

Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/removing-obfuscation-in-java-edition

9 months ago

Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret 'wink' to sidestep legal orders

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/29/google-amazon-israel-contract-secret-code

9 months ago

Tell HN: Azure outage

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45748661

9 months ago

AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questions about leaving AWS

https://oneuptime.com/blog/post/2025-10-29-aws-to-bare-metal-two-years-later/view

9 months ago

Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres

https://topicpartition.io/blog/postgres-pubsub-queue-benchmarks

9 months ago

YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1oiz0v0/youtube_is_taking_down_videos_on_performing/

9 months ago

Who needs Graphviz when you can build it yourself?

https://spidermonkey.dev/blog/2025/10/28/iongraph-web.html

9 months ago

Tips for stroke-surviving software engineers

https://blog.j11y.io/2025-10-29_stroke_tips_for_engineers/

9 months ago

Dithering – Part 1

https://visualrambling.space/dithering-part-1/

9 months ago

Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles

https://daiz.moe/crunchyroll-is-destroying-its-subtitles-for-no-good-reason/

9 months ago

uBlock Origin Lite in Apple App Store

https://apps.apple.com/in/app/ublock-origin-lite/id6745342698

9 months ago

Tell HN: Azure Outage

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45748799

9 months ago

ICE and CBP agents are scanning faces on the street to verify citizenship

https://www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-agents-are-scanning-peoples-faces-on-the-street-to-verify-citizenship/

9 months ago

Firefox profiles: Private, focused spaces for all the ways you browse

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/profile-management/

9 months ago

Tailscale Peer Relays

https://tailscale.com/blog/peer-relays-beta

9 months ago

Zig's New Async I/O

https://andrewkelley.me/post/zig-new-async-io-text-version.html

9 months ago

A visualization of the RGB space covered by named colors

https://codepen.io/meodai/full/zdgXJj/

9 months ago

AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for $1.5B

https://www.axios.com/2025/10/29/aol-bending-spoons-deal

9 months ago

Board: New game console recognizes physical pieces, with an open SDK

https://board.fun/

9 months ago

Hacking India's largest automaker: Tata Motors

https://eaton-works.com/2025/10/28/tata-motors-hack/

9 months ago

Raspberry Pi Pico Bit-Bangs 100 Mbit/S Ethernet

https://www.elektormagazine.com/news/rp2350-bit-bangs-100-mbit-ethernet

9 months ago

The Internet runs on free and open source software and so does the DNS

https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/the-internet-runs-on-free-and-open-source-softwareand-so-does-the-dns-23-10-2025-en

9 months ago

From VS Code to Helix

https://ergaster.org/posts/2025/10/29-vscode-to-helix/

9 months ago

The end of the rip-off economy: consumers use LLMs against information asymmetry

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/10/27/the-end-of-the-rip-off-economy

9 months ago

Responses from LLMs are not facts

https://stopcitingai.com/

9 months ago

OpenAI’s promise to stay in California helped clear the path for its IPO

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openais-promise-to-stay-in-california-helped-clear-the-path-for-its-ipo-3af1c31c

9 months ago

Composer: Building a fast frontier model with RL

https://cursor.com/blog/composer

9 months ago

Aggressive bots ruined my weekend

https://herman.bearblog.dev/agressive-bots/

9 months ago

I made a 10¢ MCU Talk

https://www.atomic14.com/2025/10/29/CH32V003-talking

9 months ago

Meta and TikTok are obstructing researchers' access to data, EU commission rules

https://www.science.org/content/article/meta-and-tiktok-are-obstructing-researchers-access-data-european-commission-rules

9 months ago

Ask HN: How to deal with long vibe-coded PRs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45744209

9 months ago

Developers are choosing older AI models

https://www.augmentcode.com/blog/developers-are-choosing-older-ai-models-and-16b-tokens-of-data-explain-why

9 months ago

KaTeX – The fastest math typesetting library for the web

https://katex.org/

9 months ago

The Green Tea Garbage Collector

https://go.dev/blog/greenteagc

9 months ago

Extropic is building thermodynamic computing hardware

https://extropic.ai/

9 months ago

Grammarly rebrands to 'Superhuman,' launches a new AI assistant

https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/29/grammarly-rebrands-to-superhuman-launches-a-new-ai-assistant/

9 months ago

Tell HN: Twilio support replies with hallucinated features

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45748570

9 months ago

Llamafile Returns

https://blog.mozilla.ai/llamafile-returns/

9 months ago

A century of reforestation helped keep the eastern US cool (2024)

https://news.agu.org/press-release/a-century-of-reforestation-helped-keep-the-eastern-us-cool/

9 months ago

Independently verifying Go's reproducible builds

https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/verifying_go_reproducible_builds

9 months ago

Autodesk's John Walker Explained HP and IBM in 1991 (2015)

https://www.cringely.com/2015/06/03/autodesks-john-walker-explained-hp-and-ibm-in-1991/

9 months ago

Show HN: Learn German with Games

https://www.learngermanwithgames.com/

9 months ago

How the U.S. National Science Foundation enabled Software-Defined Networking

https://cacm.acm.org/federal-funding-of-academic-research/how-the-u-s-national-science-foundation-enabled-software-defined-networking/

9 months ago

How to Obsessively Tune WezTerm

https://rashil2000.me/blogs/tune-wezterm

9 months ago

Encoding x86 Instructions

https://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~heha/hs/chm/x86.chm/x86.htm

9 months ago

Replacing EBS and Rethinking Postgres Storage from First Principles

https://www.tigerdata.com/blog/fluid-storage-forkable-ephemeral-durable-infrastructure-age-of-agents

9 months ago

Tether is now the 17th largest holder of US debt

https://twitter.com/paoloardoino/status/1983455972636111011

9 months ago

Collins Aerospace: Sending text messages to the cockpit with test:test

https://www.ccc.de/en/disclosure/collins-aerospace-mit-test-test-textnachrichten-bis-ins-cockpit-senden

9 months ago

When models manipulate manifolds: The geometry of a counting task

https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/linebreaks/index.html

9 months ago

The hardest program I've ever written (2015)

https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/09/08/the-hardest-program-ive-ever-written/

9 months ago

OS/2 Warp, PowerPC Edition (2011)

https://www.os2museum.com/wp/os2-history/os2-warp-powerpc-edition/

9 months ago

Character.ai to bar children under 18 from using its chatbots

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/technology/characterai-underage-users.html

9 months ago

Azure major outage: Portal, Front Door and global regions down

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45748756

9 months ago

US startup Substrate announces chipmaking tool that it says will rival ASML

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/us-startup-substrate-announces-chipmaking-tool-that-it-says-will-rival-asml-2025-10-28/

9 months ago

Hosting SQLite Databases on GitHub Pages (2021)

https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2021/hosting-sqlite-databases-on-github-pages/

9 months ago

SpiderMonkey Garbage Collector

https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/js/gc.html

9 months ago

Jack Kerouac, Malcolm Cowley, and the difficult birth of On the Road

https://theamericanscholar.org/scrolling-through/

9 months ago

Measuring characteristics of TCP connections at Internet scale

https://blog.cloudflare.com/measuring-network-connections-at-scale/

9 months ago